Snapshots of Jimmy Olsen #34: Aaron Ashmore

Source: Smallville (2006-2011)Type: TV

Wait... if Smallville was about Clark Kent's teenage years, how can Jimmy Olsen be in it and not be, like, 6 years old?! Ahhh, but you mean James "Jimmy" Bartholomew Olsen. This is Henry James "Jimmy" Olsen, his brother. Also a photographer for the Daily Planet. I see where you got confused. Li'l Jimmy IS in Smallville too, played by Ryan Harder. See?

Jimmy Sr. had an eventful life on the show, appearing in no less than 53 episodes. [Spoilers spoilers spoilers!] He married and divorced Chloe Sullivan (before she married Olivier Queen), and died at Doomsday's hands (well, his alter ego's), leaving a legacy for Jimmy Jr. to follow.

That's an interesting wrinkle, actually. What if Clark/Superman is so fond of Jimmy because he was an old friend of his brother/father's? Perhaps he feels responsible for it too. Superman as surrogate father, or "Big Brother", to the orphaned Jimmy, as opposed to "Best Pal". While the Smallville Season 10 comics were pretty great, they still showed Superman's early career and did not allow for that kind of "10 years on" development. What would the "veteran Superman" of the Smallville continuity be like?